{"id":275,"date":"2009-05-03T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/witpoko.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2009-05-03T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T04:22:00","slug":"what-we-know-about-giant-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"What We Know About Giant Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5RhR8FFDW-4\/Sf0ePqPge1I\/AAAAAAAAD_I\/T2nxAc8LoiQ\/s1600-h\/fm475_king_kong_vs_godzilla.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5RhR8FFDW-4\/Sf0ePqPge1I\/AAAAAAAAD_I\/T2nxAc8LoiQ\/s400\/fm475_king_kong_vs_godzilla.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331450788262738770\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/fathom.lib.uchicago.edu\/2\/21701757\/\">a very informative essay<\/a> about how basic mathematics, physics, and biology allow us to deduce what is and is not possible for giant monsters in movies.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is a paper arguing that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0005400\">largest dinosaurs with wings could not actually fly<\/a> based on similar scaling arguments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very informative essay about how basic mathematics, physics, and biology allow us to &hellip; <a title=\"What We Know About Giant Monsters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/?p=275\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What We Know About Giant Monsters<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138,2,31,100,8,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-education","category-math","category-physics","category-science","category-science-geek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4UNq0-4r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witpoko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}